different between comrade vs beau

English

Alternative forms

• comrad

Etymology

From late Middle English comered, from Middle French camarade, from Spanish camarada or Italian camerata, from Medieval Latin *camarata, from Latin camara, camera (“a chamber”); see chamber. Compare camaraderie.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?k?m?e?d/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?k?m?æd/, /?k?m??d/

Noun

comrade (plural comrades)

1. A mate, companion, or associate.
2. A companion in battle; fellow soldier.
3. (communism) A fellow socialist, communist or other similarly politically aligned person.

4. (communism) A non-hierarchical title, functionally similar to "Mr.", "Mrs.", "Miss", "Ms." etc, in a communist or socialist state.

Synonyms

• see also Thesaurus:friend
• (title): compare sister, brother
• battle buddy
• tovarish
• compagno

Related terms

Translations

Verb

comrade (third-person singular simple present comrades, present participle comrading, simple past and past participle comraded)

1. (transitive) To associate with in a friendly way.
   • 1916, Mark Twain, The Mysterious Stranger

     But she was happy, for she was far away under another sky, and comrading again with her Rangers, and her animal friends, and the soldiers.

Further reading

• comrade in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• comrade in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Anagrams

• DeMarco, Demarco, Mercado, caromed, dome car

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French beau, from Latin bellus (“beautiful”). Doublet of bello.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /b??/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /bo?/
• (UK)
• Homophone: bow
• Rhymes: -??

Noun

beau (plural beaux or beaus)

1. (dated) A man with a reputation for fine dress and etiquette; a dandy or fop.
   • 1811, Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility, chapter 21

     “I do not comprehend the meaning of the word. But this I can say, that if he ever was a beau before he married, he is one still, for there is not the smallest alteration in him.”

     “Oh! dear! one never thinks of married mens’^[sic] being beaux—they have something else to do.”

2. (dated) A male lover; a boyfriend.
   • 1917, Kate Douglas Wiggin, Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm, p. 142:

     Hannah's beau takes all her time 'n' thought, and when she gits a husband her mother'll be out o' sight and out o' mind.

   • 2009, Philippa Bourke, Monsters and Critics [1], Dec 10, 2009:

     Kristin Davis has taken time out to enjoy the surf and sand with her Australian beau, photographer Russell James.

3. A male escort.
4. A suitor of a lady.

Translations

See also

• beau-
• beautiful
• Beau

References

• beau in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Anagrams

• Aube, aube

Aromanian

Alternative forms

• beu

Etymology

From Latin bib?. Compare Romanian bea, beau.

Verb

beau (third-person present singular indicative bea, past participle biutã)

1. I drink

Related terms

• beari/beare
• biut
• biutor
• biuturã
• parabeau

French

Etymology

From Middle French beau, from Old French biau, bel, from Latin bellus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bo/
• Rhymes: -o
• Homophones: bau, baux, beaux, bot, bots

Adjective

beau (masculine singular before vowel bel, feminine singular belle, masculine plural beaux, feminine plural belles)

1. handsome, fine, attractive
2. nice
3. fair (weather)

Usage notes

• To avoid hiatus, the form bel is used before masculine singular nouns that begin with a vowel or mute h.

Derived terms

Descendants

• ? English: beau, Beau, belle, Belle

Noun

beau m (plural beaux)

1. (Louisiana) boyfriend

Coordinate terms

• belle
• blonde
• femme
• gars
• homme

Further reading

• “beau” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• aube

Middle English

Alternative forms

• beu, bew, bewe

Etymology

From Old French bel, biau, from Latin bellus, from Old Latin *duenelos. Doublet of bel.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /b?u?/
• Rhymes: -?u?

Adjective

beau

1. good, fine

References

• “beau, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Middle French

Alternative forms

• bel

Etymology

From Old French beau, one of the variants of biau.

Adjective

beau m (feminine singular belle, masculine plural beaux, feminine plural belles)

1. beautiful; handsome; attractive

Descendants

• French: beau

Old French

Adjective

beau m (oblique and nominative feminine singular bele)

1. Alternative form of biau

Declension

Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [be?aw]

Verb

beau

1. first-person singular present indicative of bea
2. first-person singular present subjunctive of bea
3. third-person plural present indicative of bea
4. third-person plural imperfect indicative of bea